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Playwrights => Sarah Kane discussion => Topic started by: archive on August 16, 2007, 09:33:53 PM
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In Lithuania next month they're performing a version of Crave with some of Cleansed incorporated - interesting concept...
Archive 21-1-2002
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In Poland there's Cleansed with Crave incorporated ;)))) Maybe it's just specifics of the region?
Archive 21-1-2002
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I would have thought Crave with 4.48 Psychosis would be a more logical amalgamation. What do others think?
Archive 22-1-2002
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I don't know, I have always thought that the whole tone of '4:49' was very differnt to 'Crave'. They do and did work well on the same bill but I don't think there is that much that you could traspose from one to the other. Though there isn't that much from 'Cleansed' That you could put into 'Crave'. Though I guess I'm more in the Beckett tradition that the authors work should be presented as the author intended.
Archive 22-1-2002
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I agree with you that all the plays are best left as they are.
All the plays have a very different ethos from each other. I just thought that IF you were going to pair two of them together, Crave and 4.48 would make a more natural match than any other pairing.
Archive 22-1-2002
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Further to the above, some of the speeches from 4.48 Psychosis - "I will hang myself to the sound of my lover's breathing", "I dream of a woman...", "to be loved...", perhaps even a countdown from 100, and possibly the concluding "watch me vanish" - would fit quite comfortably into Crave.
However, I do prefer to leave the plays as they stand.
Archive 22-1-2002
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I'm rereading Cleansed over and over now, and I still love Crave best (which means I'm rereading it over and over too), and I don't really find those two that different.
Acctually I think there are lots of motives connecting all the Sarah Kane's plays. Give me any of two titles and a little of time, and I'll find you what connects them.
It's maybe a little paranoic, the way I think of those texts, but I'm finding motives like sunflowers and daffodils (Crave and Cleansed), and stuff like that. I also pay attention to motives from outside Kane's works...
-Jolka-
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